Why is TUNABLE_INT discouraged?

[Garrett Cooper]

2010/10/18 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
> Garrett Cooper <gcooper at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> PS I added uquad_t for consistency in the APIs, even though quad_t was
>> deprecated, but I didn't bump __FreeBSD_version__ -- wasn't sure if I
>> should have done that).
>
> You should bump __FreeBSD_version__ anyway so third-party or shared code
> can use the new API if it is available and the old one if it isn't.
>
>> Let's try with the patch attached...
>
> Mailman strips binary attachments.  The correct MIME type is
> text/x-patch.

    Ok. Let's retry with a .patch extension and by bumping __FreeBSD_version__.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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